Notice for the attention of the persons to which restrictive measures provided for in Council Decision 2011/486/CFSP and Council Regulation (EU) No 753/2011 concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Afghanistan apply
Date: 2011-08-02
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: Afghanistan, UNO, international sanctions, legal person, natural person








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2.8.2011   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 227/1





Notice for the attention of the persons to which restrictive measures provided for in Council Decision 2011/486/CFSP and Council Regulation (EU) No 753/2011 concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Afghanistan apply
2011/C 227/01
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
The following information is brought to the attention of the persons that appear in the Annex to Council Decision 2011/486/CFSP (1) and in Annex I to Council Regulation (EU) No 753/2011 (2) concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Afghanistan.
The United Nations Security Council has adopted Resolution 1988 (2011), imposing restrictive measures with respect to individuals and entities designated, prior to the date of adoption of this Resolution, as the Taliban, and other individuals, groups, undertakings and entities associated with them, as specified in section A (‘Individuals associated with the Taliban’) and section B (‘entities and other groups and undertaking associated with the Taliban’) of the Consolidated List of the Committee established pursuant to Resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1333 (2000), as well as other individuals, groups, undertakings and entities associated with the Taliban.
The persons concerned may submit at any time a request to the UN Committee established pursuant to paragraph 30 of UNSCR 1988 (2011), together with any supporting documentation, for the decisions to include them in the UN list to be reconsidered. Such request should be sent to the following address:





United Nations — Focal point for delisting




Security Council Subsidiary Organs Branch




Room S-3055 E




New York, NY 10017




UNITED STATES OF AMERICA




See for more information at: http://www.un.org/sc/committees/751/comguide.shtml
Further to the UN decision, the Council of the European Union has determined that the persons that designated in the above-mentioned Resolution should be included in the lists of persons, groups, undertakings and entities which are subject to the restrictive measures provided for in Council Decision 2011/486/CFSP and Council Regulation (EU) No 753/2011. The grounds for listing of the persons concerned appear in the relevant entries in Annex to the Council Decision and in Annex I to the Council Regulation.
The attention of the persons and entities concerned is drawn to the possibility of making an application to the competent authorities of the relevant Member State(s) as indicated in the web-sites in Annex II to Regulation (EU) No 753/2011, in order to obtain an authorisation to use frozen funds for basic needs or specific payments (cf. Article 5 of the Regulation).
The persons concerned may submit a request to the Council, together with supporting documentation, that the decision to include them on the above-mentioned lists should be reconsidered, to the following address:





Council of the European Union




General Secretariat




DG K Coordination




Rue de la Loi/Wetstraat 175




1048 Bruxelles/Brussel




BELGIQUE/BELGIË




The attention of the persons and entities concerned is also drawn to the possibility of challenging the Council's Decision before the General Court of the European Union, in accordance with the conditions laid down in Article 275, second paragraph, and Article 263, fourth and sixth paragraphs, of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.


(1)  OJ L 199, 2.8.2011, p. 57.

(2)  OJ L 199, 2.8.2011, p. 1.